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THE TWIG
December 4, 1975
Placement office newsletter
INTERVIEW WORKSHOP
Need help with in
terviewing skills? The Career
Planning Center is holding an
Interview Workshop on
Tuesday, December 9 at 3:30
p.m. in the Cate Center
Auditorium. The Workshop
will include a film on in
terviewing and a question and
answer period with Mrs.
Capel and Mrs. Harris serving
as resource people.
The Interviewing
Workshop is not limited to
seniors. These skills will help
anyone applying for a job,
whether the job be summer,
part-time. Co-op, or a per
manent position.
study guides for the MCAT.
3. American Medical College
Application Service (AMCAS)
is a centralized processing
service used by 19 medical
schools for initial screening of
applicants. Check the
catalogues of the schools to
which you are applying to
determine if they require it.
cost is $10 for one school: $5
each 2-7 schools.
5. The Career Planning
Center will soon have ap
plications for the May MCAT
and AMCAS. There is also a
collection of medical school
catalogues and other
literature regarding medical
school admission, financial
aid, and minority information,
on how to be successful in
getting into medical school.
The October issue of The
National Pre-Medical
Newsletter includes tips to
help students applying to
medical school. Two recent
acquisitions of the Career
Planning Center are Medical
School Admission
Requirements: 1976-1977.
Dates set for February Elections
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4. Dr. Clara Bunn, ext. 266, is
Meredith’s pre-med advisor.
Mrs. Capel and Mrs. Harris in
the Career Planning Center
are available for help in
making career decisions and
vocational testing.
Elections for 1976-77
Student officers will be held in
February, according to
Rebecca Askew, Student
Government Association
(SGA) President.
Filing for the slate will
take place February 2-5. First
slate speeches will be given
during SGA convocation on
February 6. Platforms for
these candidates will be
published in the February 12
TWIG. Elections will be held
on Friday, February 13 and
the runoff will be on Monday,
February 16.
Second slate filing will run
from Monday February 16 to
Thursday, February 19.
MEDICAL SCHOOL AD
MISSION INFORMATION-
Candidates will give tneir
speeches at SGA on Friday the
20 and platforms will be
published in the February 26
TWIG. The elections will be
held on February 27 and the
runoff on March 1.
Offices included under
each slate are listed on page
72 of the College Handbook.
Employment (Continued from Page
2)
1. Each Medical school
has its own admission and
differs in the relative weights
among these criteria. The
criteria include academic
performance. Medical College
Admission Test (MCAT), non-
academic activities, letters of
recommendations, and in
terviews.
2. All U.S. Canadian, and
some foreign medical schools
require the MCAT. The fee for
the MCAT is $25.00. the MCAT
is given twice a year in Sep
tember and April or May;
however, the Spring testing in
your junior year gets you into
the admission pool at the best
time. Review of science and
math might be helpful as well
as commercially prepared
recruiters coming to the
Meredith campus.
All suggested that
Meredith students soon to
graduate should not wait
around for campus recruiters
to “find” them, but should
take the initiative themselves,
search seriously, and use any
connections possible.
Planning for specific
majors or careers did not
come into play as reasons why
the former students chose to
attend Meredith. In fact, few
had any idea what their fields
would be when beginning
college.
General reputation of the
school, hearing about how
well-respected it was
academically and how much
older friends who were
MEREDITH COLLEGE BASKETBALL TEAM
Schedule for 1975-76
Thurs.
Dec. 4
St. Mary’s
7:00 PM
There
Tues.
Dec. 9
Pembroke
7:00 PM
There
Thurs.
Jan. 15
Salem College
7:00 PM
Here
Tues.
Jan. 20
Guilford
7:00 PM
Here
Thurs.
Jan. 22
St. Andrews
7:00 PM
There
Mon.
Jan. 26
A.C.C.
7:00 PM
Here
Thurs.
Jan. 29
Sandhills
7:00 PM
There
Mon.
Feb. 2
U.N.C.-W.
7:00 PM
Here
Thurs.
Feb. 5
Pembroke
7:00 PM
Here
Tues.
Feb. 10
U.N.C.-W.
7:00 PM
There
Thurs.
Feb. 12
Guilford
7:00 PM
There
Tues.
Feb. 17
Sandhills
7:00 PM
Here
Thurs.
Feb. 19
Salem College
7:00 PM
There
Tues.
Feb. 24
St. Andrews
7:00 PM
Here
What college women
are being pinned
with.
As a woman ROTC
student, you'll com
pete for your commis
sion on the same foot
ing as the men in your
class.
There are 2-year,
3-year, and 4-year
scholarship programs
available. A young
woman enrolled In the
AFROTC 4-year pro
gram is also qualified
to compete for an
AFROTC college schol
arship which will
cover the remaining 2
or 3 years she has as
a cadet. Tuition is
covered...ail fees
paid... textbook costs
reimbursed . . . plus
$100 a month allow
ance, tax-free.
A woman’s place is
definitely in the Air
Force and our pinning
ceremony will be the
highlight of her col
lege experience.
Put if all together in Air Force ROTC.
Meredith students liked the
school, was the reason given
for choosing Meredith by all of
those interviewed.
Other reasons influencing
decisions included the location
convenient to home, social
and cultural opportunities of
the area, and family
traditions of attending
Meredith.
None transferred to other
schools, saying they “never
even thought of it”, because of
their satisfaction with what
they found at Meredith.
And they were not
disappointed in their Meredith
education after graduating
and making touch with the
“working world.” Starlette
Thomas feels she received a
good background at Meredith
for teaching and that her
attending Meredith helped her
to attain her position because
of her school system’s high
respect for the college’s
education program.
But Meredith’s high
reputation was not so much a
factor in the graduates’
satisfaction with their
Meredith experiences as was
the personal attention af
forded each student. Debbie
Hess believes this benefit
gave her a “much better
education than most people
have a chance to receive.”
Further benefits
highlighted were derived
from Meredith’s being a
woman’s college. Most of
those interviewed felt they
benefited from the school’s
size and closeness, its
traditions, and its op
portunities for leadership by
women.
Kathy Fuller is convinced
she was offered more op
portunities as in individual
than she would have received
at a coeducation institution.
Because of the school’s small
size, she found there was not
much room for apathy, so she
was kept active and involved.
Diane Timm liked at
tending a woman’s college
because leadership qualities
in women are given a better
chance to develop than they
would be at a coed school.
Cathy McCaskill agrees that a
school like Meredith gives a
woman a chance to be a leader
since there are “no guys to
push women out of the
positions.”
school and a sense of
responsibility,” she asserts.
A few of the graduates
disagreed, however, seeing
that attending a woman’s
college could put one at a
disadvantage or perhaps
make no difference in her own
character whether she chose a
coed college or a woman’s
college, that being assertive
or non-assertive is simply a
result of one’s own per
sonality.
Meredith, and she received
her Wachovia hnd Carolina
Power and Ligh offers from
these interviews.
A woman’s college could
hinder a woman’s develop
ment in a career in some
ways, in Vickie Merritt’s
opinion, because students are
not dealing with men
frequently except in dating
situations.
Beth Barr finds this is
exactly the case with her,
because, not having been in
classes with men, she feels
“inferior” around men in the
job world.
Nearly all of those in
terviewed, in fact, found out
about the opening which they
filled from a friend or
acquaintance, through a
newspaper advertisement, or
a result of their own inquiries.
Kathy Fuller, how'ever, in
terviewed extensively with all
recruiters she could at
She added that the
cooperative education
program at Meredith is
“great” as an aid to job
finding. She recommends as
well, learning how to type in
case the need arises to take a
secretarial job. Debbie Hess
agrees that business skills
courses are valuable since
“you can at least get a job
with typing and shorthand.
People always need
secretaries.” Karen Britt
Media
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willingness to appoint a
“qualified” person to fill
retired Justice William
Douglas’ position, for, said
Ms. Alexander, though token
women are indeed needed, in
many fields the Supreme
Court is not one of those fields.
Ms. Alexander responded to
several questions on
Watergate, stating that the
Watergate affair was “the
best civics lesson this country
could have had.”
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